Railroad-rail joint.



G. A. BINNIX.

RAILROAD RAIL JOINT.

Arrmoulon FILED JAIL17, 1908.

I 906,186. Patented Dec. 8, 1968.

' GEORGE'ARTHUR BI NNIX, OF WATERLOO, NEBRASKA.

-RA ILROAD-RAIL .rom'r.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ARTHUR Ba- 'NIX, a citizen of the United States, residing.

at Waterloo, inthe county of Douglas a State of Nebraska, have invented anew and useful Railroad-Rail Joint, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in railroad rails, more particularly to the ends thereof, the main object being to so fashion the rail ends that the rails may be fiuickly, easily and rapidly put together, and

rmly and rigidly joined without the use of fish plates or other extraneous means except bolts and nuts.

Another object to be derived from the use of joints made by the improved rails is the elimination of butt connections between the rails and substituting lap j oints, 'which latter cause a smoothness of running by passing trains not possible where therails are butt joined of fastenedend to end as are the present form of rail joints.

With these and other objects in view, the inventioncomprises the-various novel features of construction and combination and arrangement of arts, which will be more fully described hereinafter, and setforth more. articularly in the appended claims.

In t e accompanying drawings :Figure 1' is a crossv sectional view through a rail joint showing the improved construction. Fig. 2

is-a horizontal section on the-line 22 of Fig.

1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the ends oftwo rails disconnected, but which when placed together and bolted form an improved rail joint. v I I Corresponding parts in ;the several figures are indicated throughout by similar characters of reference. i

. With the exception of the ends, the rail of j the present invention is similar to those in common use, having a base flange 1, a vertical web 2 and a head 3. Each end of the Web 2 is thickened for some distance back of the end of the base flane 1, which thickening 4 extendsforward o the end of the rail anequal distance to form a tongue 5. The' The ends 9 of the base flanges 1 are out.

Specification of Letters Patent. hpplication flledJanuary 17, 1908. Serial lie. 411,332.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

brought together, the heads 3, however, bemg differently formed in order to produce a smooth and substantially unbroken surface for the passing car wheels. This is done by square across the rails and abut when removing a portion of the head of the ra'ii overhangin the beveled side 6 of the web in the-same game as said side and continuous with it. quare shoulders 10 and 11 are formed 'on opposite side's of the head against which rest similar shoulders on the rail joined thereto. These shoulders are ref-erably parallel to each otherand 'equa y spaced on itudinally on opposite sides of the plane of t e base flange end 9. By this construction a rail is produced having. a base flange with a square entirely across the rail fastening, a tongue the he'i ht of the web projecting beyond the baseange and intetherewith and ahead having two transverse shoulders one beyond and one in rear of the base'flange end connected by a beveled surfacecontinu'ous with the beveled surface of the web and-tongue which surface is uninterrupted by projections, depressions or irregularities of any Rails of this type will be rolled complete, the enlargement and its projecting tongue being formed as described on each end of the rail and on op osite sides of the web, so that whichever en is presented to an end of an-.

heads, the Wheels of passing trains will cross said joint without pounding or causing the Further, by the,

ends of the rails to vibrate which ordinarily tends to wear them and to impairthe track. The self supporting joint of this rail provides a connection which is smooth and rlgid and has all the advantages -characteristic of a continuous rail, and is a faster track than one constructed in the ordinary manner. A joint of this type is cheaper and is more quickly laid, less materialbeing re uiredto make he joint than where fish p ates are used as in the present form-of track construction. The bolt holes are elongated to permit rther advantage in this form of joint where thfe tracks are used for carrying an expansion or contraction of the rails, and as.

electric circuit as in a'block signal system, the joint itself is sufficient to carry the current without using wire connections be-, tween the adjoining rails, as is the present 5 practice. When necessary'to insulate two rails, templets of insulating material may be inserted between the beveled or inclined surfaces. v

Whatis claimed is: V 1. A railroad rail having the base flange at one end for its entire width perpendicular to the length of the-rail, its web thickened on one side and rojecting beyond said base flange end to orm a tongue, the web and 15 web side of said tongue being beveled, said beveled surface extending inwardly from the end of the base flange a distance equal to the projection of the tongue beyond the same. g 2. A railroad rail having the base flange at 20 one end for its entire width perpendicular to the length of the rail, its web thickened on one side and projecting beyond said base flange end to form a tongue, the web and web side of said tongue being beveled, said-bev- 5 eled surface extending inwardly from the end I of the base flange a distance equal to the projection of the tongue beyond the same, and transverse shoulders one on each side of the longitudinal center of the rail head and equally spaced in opposite directions from the plane of the base flange end.

3. A railroad rail having the base flange at one end for its entire width perpendicular to the length of the rail, its web thickened on one side and projecting beyond said base flange to form a to ue and having bolt holes extending therethrough, one side of said web and tongue being inclined at an angle to the line of the rail, the head of said rail having a shoulder on each side of the web in diflerent transverse planes and the plane surface connecting sai shoulders continuous with said aggular or inclined side, combined with a r end to form a joint, the inclined faces of each rail. being laced in contact with the tongue and thic ened portion of one overlapping the other, and bolts for connecting the two rails.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE ARTHUR BINN IX.

' Witnesses:

CHAUNCEY P. OOY, Ronnn'r E. NEITZEL. 

